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The Touring Sommelier Bringing fun & insightful wine tastings to your private or corporate events within the north of England. � �

13/01/2025

Have you ever been to a wine tasting where you get to keep the leftovers ?

At the end of every booking, we pop any extra food pairings into a TTS box, and leave whatever’s left in the bottles for you ! 🍾

So whether you want a little reminder for your dinner the next day, or just fancy some charcuterie for breakfast (no judgement here 😋), we’ve got you sorted ✨

05/01/2025

Happy New Year from TTS 🎉🥂
Perfect antidote for this cold frosty weather ?
…staying inside and going on a wine journey with us of course !

May your glass always be full and delicious in 2025 🍷

07/06/2024

Cheers to the weekend 🥂
loves an ice cold glass of pale rosé to celebrate surviving the working week. Here we enjoyed a bottle on our little trip to Crete 🌸

What are you all drinking this weekend ?

05/05/2024

Happy Sauvy-B Day ! 🥂

Sauvignon Blanc, named “Sauvi” as in ‘Savage’ because it grows like crazy 🍇

The best is from Marlborough, New Zealand where it tastes super limey 🍋‍🟩 or Pouilly-Fumé in France, where it tastes smoky (fumé 💨) because of the flinty soil it grows in

This is your excuse to open a bottle ! 🍾

26/04/2024

Happy weekend winos 🥂

Here’s a shot from our recent visit to Crete, where we visited lots of vineyards & tasted plenty of Greek wine 😋

Crete is home to one of the earliest known wine presses, due to one of the most ancient civilisations settling here 🏛️

Their wines are often high in alcohol, made from grapes such as Plyto, Dafni, Vilana and Liatiko 😋

Here our somm was checking out the vines at a monastery where they grew their own olives as well as their own wine 🫒

What are you all drinking ? 🍾

31/03/2024

Happy Easter ! 🐣🐰💐
Cheers to the clocks going forward, the days getting brighter and the sun coming out ☀️

Springtime for a grapevine is when it wakes up & sprouts little buds. Tiny white flowers will start to grow 🌸 each one of these will become a grape ! 🍇

What are you all drinking this Easter ? 🥂

27/03/2024

Looking for a unique way to celebrate a birthday 🎁 anniversary 💍 hen 🐓 or stag do 🦌 ?

Why not book us in for an evening of tasting and learning about delicious wines, based on a theme of your choice ? 🍷

We arrive at your home/air bnb, set up around your table, take you on a wine-filled adventure, then do all the tidying ! 🥂

Choose from our 5 tours…
🌍 European
🦘 Southern Hemisphere
🧐 Discovery
🏺 Greek Myth
📚 Book Tour ✨brand new !

Drop us a message for more info, or click the link in bio to check out our 5🌟 reviews

22/02/2024

What are we sniffing for..?👃🏼💐

During each of our wine tours, we talk you through how to smell wine like a sommelier 🍷

We look for primary, secondary and tertiary aromas 🧐

🥇 Primary aromas come from the grape itself
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🥈 Secondary aromas come from the winemaking processes after harvest, and rely a lot on how the wine is fermented
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🥉 Tertiary aromas turn up when the wine has been aged
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We bring everyone a hand-illustrated tasting card when you book with us, so everyone can spot each of these aromas 💐

16/01/2024

❄️ Snow day ❄️

What’s the perfect pairing for this weather ?

A dark juicy red snuggled up by the fire would be ideal. See if you can find an Alicante Bouschet 🫐 from Portugal or go for a Rioja Reserva 🔥
‘Reserva’ means the Spanish wine has been aged for at least 3 years, with 1 year in an oak barrel, creating a lovely smoky chocolatey (oaky !) flavour 🌳

Or pretend you’re on the ski slopes with a German Riesling or Austrian Grüner Veltliner.
GV (pictured here) is a high acid white with flavours of starfruit, gooseberry & gravel ⭐️ ..one of our somm’s favourites !

07/01/2024

Thank you for your kind words, Tim !

This lovely group booked us for our Greek myth tour because they enjoy wine and stories - the perfect combination 🥂🏺

We had such a great time with Tim and his gang, and we’re really pleased they did too !

31/12/2023

14 tastings, 195 bottles of wine, 1365 glasses, 1 new tour and a couple of vineyard trips 🍇

2023 has been full to the brim for us, and we can’t wait to get pouring again in 2024 🌟

A massive big thank you to all our lovely customers, friends & family 🥂 …watch this space for more exciting things to come 👀

Happy New Year and lots of love from Harriet & Chloe 🍾 ###

23/12/2023

How’s the Christmas prep going everyone ? 🎄

When you book a tasting with us, we set everything up & take everything away …except the good stuff: you keep your leftover wine and food !

We loved this tour we put on for Sam & her friends. It was a special one 🌟 They won the evening in an auction in aid of Bury Hospice 🥂

We can’t wait to get prepping for more tasting tours in 2024 !

01/12/2023

Bottled up and ready to hit the road for tonight’s tasting 🚗🍷

We’ll be touring the wines of Europe with our group. Where will your tour take you ? 🌍

11/11/2023

Thank you for your lovely review Charlie 🥂

Check out more reviews at: https://maps.app.goo.gl/AQhdRZqpfJwg81WR6?g_st=ic

05/11/2023

How is rosé made ? 💕

A common question at our tastings, and there are a couple of answers…

🌸 Maceration: black grapes rest for a period of time in their skins before fermentation

🌷 Blending: a small amount of red wine is added to a vat of white wine

Maceration is the most common method, and blending is only really used for sparkling wines 🍾

For more details, and to ask more questions, book us for a tasting 💗

28/10/2023

What does a sommelier look like…

• can’t drink wine without giving it a spin 🍷
• lots of sniffing 🌷
• pen at the ready for tasting notes 🖋️
• finding any excuse to open a bottle 🍾

Our somm puts all the research into creating our tasting tours 🌍 ..and because grapes, weather & vintages change every year, she makes sure everything is up to date each time we make a booking 📚🧐

We want to bring you wines that are not only delicious, but interesting & different from anything you’ve tried before 😋

(credit to fellow somm for helping out with research 🥂)

17/10/2023

A throwback to warmer times on the vineyard 🍇

Thank you for all your interest and messages recently ! 🥂

As the days get darker everyone’s up for gathering inside & trying some new wines 🏡

Which theme will you choose..
🌍 European tour
🦘 Southern Hemisphere tour
🔍 Discovery tour
🏛️ Greek myth tour

10/10/2023

All geared up and ready to go 🥂

A little shot from our last tasting, which we hosted at the lovely Rachel’s house for her bridal squad 💕

They travelled from France, to Austria, to Italy with a few other European stops on the way 🍷✈️

If you’re keen to try a sparkling wine that tastes as delicious as Champagne without the price tag… 🍾

…or a proper fruity picnic red from Austria… 🍓

…or something a little bit sweeter from Germany… 🍭

then our European tour is the one for you 🌍

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